Divided We Fall is an exercise in grindcore excellence with some old school death metal influences. The album’s recording quality sounds like the band is smashing glass while screaming and growling over it. Excruciating Terror’s preference for blasts and speed take precedence over almost everything else. The result is old school destruction on savage, unforgiving levels. Pieces like “Don’t Care Who You Are”, “Just Another Victim” and “Without Mercy” are like a pound of semtex going off in your bathroom and leveling your city block. There’s only a pause here and there to kick up the tempo, if and when the band even give you that much breathing room.

Six tracks of pained uneasy sludge. Coming off the back of splits with the likes of Thou, Cloud Rat and Disrotted; Moloch release their 2nd full length LP. Recorded by James Atkinson (Rot in Hell, Gentlemans Pistols) and mastered by James Plotkin.

As contrived and absurd as it seemed, we all knew that this day would eventually come. Refrigerate the Holstens, draw for the baggie, bust out the mustard, and prepare to respect it: it’s time for GEEZER, the debut LP from loveable idiots ONA SNOP.
Twenty minutes of unrelenting disorientation sees these foolish scamps recklessly tear through 18 brand-new tracks of freaky fastcore to keep your head banging and your mind boggling.
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Ian Boult at Stuck On A Name Recording Studio, Nottingham and artwork by T Bare McClough.
The new generation of Leeds’s power violence at its best with members of The Afternoon Gentlemen, Lugubrious Children, Famine…!
FFO: Lack of Interest, Quill, Backslider & Archagathus…

Senseless Apocalypse's long awaited 2nd album on LP after an interval of 9 years! Second album of this Japanese Power Violence/Fastcore veterans with 25 furious tracks recorded in 2008. First time on vinyl.

This is an unholy pairing of Baltimore’s TRIAC and Chicago’s SICK/TIRED and To Live A Lie’s first split LP record release. The split is the best material to date of either band. TRIAC brings to the table their patented no-nonsense darkened grind hardcore that makes you feel a little uneasy. They are kind of like a NAILS that would let you be one of them. SICK/TIRED unleash their grindiest material that seems almost inspired by TRIAC. They still weave in some grindviolence and the opening track is almost a mincecore song. A perfect pairing for 5pm when you’re off work, sitting in rush hour traffic, and done with the day and people. Play this at max volume and your day will melt away.

No artists, tracklist, or label listed anywhere on the release.
Songs are played fluidly into each other, complete or otherwise on The Hirs Collective side, and with radio edits fluid with the beginning of each song on the Thou side.
All songs are Nirvana covers.

In one corner, you have the awesome Ragana, a trio that hails from Olympia, Wash., and have spent the past several years touring and making music that fights back against bullshit societal forces that hold people down. They’re wildly and proudly feminist and anarchist, also taking up arms on LGBTQ issues and railing against racism (the label putting this out, An Out Recordings, also proudly stands up for these beliefs). On the other side is Thou, a band we’ve long written about, one of the great units in heavy music who also have used their platform to rail against capitalism and support those with different sexual identities, among other things. There couldn’t be a more perfect union in all of heavy music, and this record is a triumph and galvanizing point for those who also are under the boot of oppression and for those who are helping in the fight. If you’re not fired up as fuck when these five songs are over, you may need to reconsider where you stand.

The tracks mix furious speed with sharp grooves that don’t always take an obvious route to get to their destination. There’s some atypical riffs and mid-paced aggression here that makes for a battering, bewildering listen, and these are interspersed with the kind of nasty, chaotic grinding blast beats that will surely make the most cynical of grindfreaks smile.

Next exit Bremen. Hell yeah, 22 years is a f**king long time and it’s hard to believe that the recording of these nine tracks are that old - and yet, the "1996 reconstructed" stands the test of time - it's still as fresh and vital as when it was recorded. CAROL was permanently disbanded in 1997 after their brief existence and was another legendary band of the almighty mid-90s Bremen scene, with members involved in bands such as SYSTRAL and MÖRSER. It's very difficult to find the words to describe their music - they obviously take all kinds of elements from hardcore and metal just to create the most perfect mutation of all of them in the form of songs that come alive as new and unique entities. Their blend of discordance and precise, barrelling riffs, laid out within the framework of frantic bursts of violence and chronic brutality, combined with the most ear-splitting vocals around is what CAROL was all about. What really sets CAROL apart was their absolute, unrelenting passion for the chaotic brand of hardcore they played. "1996 reconstructed" is what you've been waiting for: a collection of nine lost songs (two previously released tracks from the "cry now, cry later vol.4" compilation and their split 7" with STACK) and seven new tracks from the same recording session in 1996. Everything has been remastered for pristine sound quality, while maintaining the raw, frenetic feel the band had always given off.

Impossible Orbits is Dephosphorus’ third album and savage beast at that. While clocking in at only twenty-five-minutes, the tracks are packed without feeling bloated. It’s some great grind, and something that’s not as concerned with blasting as hard as possible. Oh, they’re put you through a garbage disposal at times, but at others they’ll constrict your veins and be content with having you by the throat. This is next level grind.

Featuring members of emotive hardcore heavyhitters Loma Prieta and all-out emoviolence ensemble Beau Navire, the band pulls a little influence from each. Their second full-length is called She, which technically makes it a self-titled album. The record is marked by its array of vocal styles. She is a short but emotionally exhausting listen. In spots, the band sounds drained to the point of failure, but still finds the strength to come roaring back through the moments of weakness. They describe it as an album about “personal experiences, growth, grief, politics, and the struggle to contribute something beautiful, however small.

After blowing minds and making best-of lists across the world with their 2016 full-length, Dreams of Suffocation, and jaw-dropping splits with Eyelet and Coma Regalia, Palm Bay, FL based trio Gillian Carter is back with ...This Earth Shaped Tomb, a 35 minute sonic assault developing further on their impressive atmospherics and chaotic abilities that we've all come to know and love.

English trio Human Cull has been grinding along since 2011, their influences worn proudly on their sleeve: early Napalm Death, Terrorizer, Extreme Noise Terror…This is grindcore of the old-school, crust-covered variety, gnarly and ugly and blasting and screaming and concise, raw and unapologetic.

Sonically, they blend a heavy post-rock influence with intensive climaxes, topped by incredibly emotional vocals that border on tears. Of course this description will inevitably draw the Envy/City of Caterpillar

Earlier this year, the legendary Japanese Screamo band 'KILLIE' surprised their fans by announcing that they've re-recorded and re-imagined most of their back catalogue for a 'discography of sorts’ titled ‘Retrial of the Criminal Begins’ and will be self-releasing it on cd. Dog knights had the honour to put these on vinyl!

Lost Boys is a screamo/hardcore three-piece from Germany, which started playing shows in May 2016. After achieving lots of positive feedback for their self-titled debut EP (which has only been released digitally) the band has finally finished their first album. "Fun" consists of ten furious, short and rough songs, which might be a pleasure to listen to if you dig bands like Majority Rule, Pg.99, Orchid or Louise Cyphre.

Ostraca is back with another banger album! Releasing three records (a split LP w/ Flesh Born, the "Last" LP and the split w/ Untold Want, Vril and Coma Regalia) in 2017 as well as touring North America and Europe, Ostraca never seem to grow tired. Coming a little out of the blue, the band is now releasing their next LP "Enemy" and what can you say - it's a marvelous and powerful screamo record! Six songs in total. Some shorter ones with crushing outbreaks, some longer with epic instrumental works as we've known it from the band's previous recordings. Ostraca never disapppoint. Again, if you're into bands such as Pg.99, City Of Caterpillar, Orchid or June Paik

2017 concluded with the release of the absolutely stellar 'moments' LP by Japan's SANS VISAGE. The 11 songs have been evolving since 2014 and it really shows, because these are straight-up ace screamo tunes. The perfect mix of melody and chaos

Selva play a killer style of music that incorporates elements of post metal, post hardcore, black metal, and screamo within their sound. Musically, Selva can be loosely compared to bands such as Titan, Black Freighter, Tempest, and other like-minded bands.

It's been a while but finally four years after their split 7" with Geraniüm (France) and their 'Hexis' 12", here's a new record by FINISTERRE. Their sound has developed quite a bit and moved from the mid-tempo D-Beat/Crust more towards Dark Hardcore with hints of Postpunk. It's a diverse record. Each of these eight songs stands for itself. Manuela's brutal but charasmatic vocals are deep, political and radical. Telling stories of anger and hope. Musically shaped and grown over the years, they play a unique and damn exciting blend of dark melancholy post-hardcore, heavy d-beat and dark crustpunk, incredibly direct and intense. Finisterre are not one of this faceless d-beat-cover-bands, they found their really own sound and are playing in a league with the good and important bands of this genre like Fall of Efrafa, Alpinist or Tragedy. Hardcore with a crust edge, varied and dark. It took a while, but i was definetly worth the wait.